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Chapter 8 - When The Light Is Low

In An Idler In The Wilds

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Tickner Edwardes

Although he was well known around the South Downs in West Sussex as 'The Bee-man of Burpham', Tickner Edwardes also had a great affinity for…

Repasts

In Pantropheon

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Alexis Soyer

Soyer was a 'celebrity chef', devising innovations such as water-cooled refrigerators and adjustable temperature ovens. He developed many po…

On the Brighton Road

In The Ghost Ship & Other Stories

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Richard Middleton

Richard Middleton is one of the many authors who, despite great merit, have been almost entirely forgotten today. This English author was an…

Secrets Won from the Frozen North, part 1

In The Book of the Ocean

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Ernest Ingersoll

The Book of the Ocean is precisely what its title promises. It contains a rather broad overview of all topics connected to the ocean, such a…

King Alfred by E.A. Freeman

In Heroes Every Child Should Know

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Hamilton Wright Mabie

The endeavour has been made in this volume to bring together the heroic men of different races, periods and types; and in the selection of m…

The Cost of a Pyramid

In Neither Here nor There

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Oliver Herford

Oliver Herford, and American humorist, writer, and illustrator here gives us short vignettes from topics as seemingly insignificant things a…

A Wide-Awake Boy

In The Story of Edison and The Wonders of Electricity

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Frank Mundell

Despite not having attended conventional school for more than a few months during his childhood, Thomas Alva Edison received a good groundin…

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